ThevisitoftheEuropeanSpaceAgency(ESA)delegationinRomania

on 17 September 2018

On 12 September, the President of the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA), Dr. Phys. Marius-Ioan Piso, received the visit of an official delegation from the European Space Agency (ESA), led by the ESA Director General, Dr. Ing. Johann-Dietrich Wörner. The delegation came to Bucharest for high-level meetings regarding topics such as the future Romanian Presidency of the European Union Council and Romanian participation to European space programmes as an ESA Member State.

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Sunday, 09 December 2018

In this image the Romanian flag can be seen on the mock-up of an Ariane 6 launcher, at the European Spaceport in French Guiana. In the background, the launching pad is currently being built. The new launcher is due to start operations in 2021.

The President of the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA), Dr. Phys. Marius-Ioan Piso, and the President of the Polish Space Agency (POLSA), PhD, Dsc Grzegorz Brona, signed a Letter of Intent to enhance cooperation between the two agencies, during a Romanian-Polish Bilateral Meeting in Bucharest, on 14-15 November.

During the first two weeks of November 2018, significant forest fires occurred in the Apuseni region of Romania and in California, USA. The data stream from the Sentinel 2 and 3 satellites of the European Copernicus programme allowed the monitoring of the fire dynamics due to their superior temporal resolution. These images were processed by Terrasigna, a Romanian company with strong background in Earth Observation data processing.